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A man could face a decade in prison for a fake crocodile photo he made with Gemini

WTF?! Some people love to generate AI slop images that spread false information, especially the kind that make people worry. That's not a good idea if you're in Singapore, where a man who used Gemini to make a fake image of a crocodile in a popular reservoir has been charged over the act and could face up to ten years in prison.

Hackers use fake coding tests to infect 30,000 devices and steal $10 million in crypto

Instagram is making it harder for AI-generated personas to pass themselves off as real people

Polymarket paid influencers to fake winning bets, built dummy websites to pull it off

The rise of "dopamine sites": fake food delivery and shopping apps that satisfy cravings without spending a cent

Europe fines Temu $232 million over illegal and unsafe product listings

CrystalDiskInfo update adds fake Samsung SSD detection

Amazon customer buys Pragmata for Switch 2, receives fake card that damages console

US arrests OnlyFake operator accused of selling over 10,000 AI-generated digital fake IDs

Fake faces generated by AI are now "too good to be true," researchers warn

The takeaway: The ability of AI models to produce convincing, human-like images has gone too far. A new study suggests that detecting AI-generated faces is now too difficult for most people. Even more concerning, so-called "super recognizers" perform only marginally better. The visual clues that once exposed AI-generated images are becoming increasingly difficult to spot, though they have not disappeared entirely.

Fake Samsung 990 Pro SSDs are becoming harder to detect as storage prices soar

Education report promoting AI ethics under fire for fake sources, possible AI misuse

That viral lifetime Starlink offer on Facebook is a total scam

Think you can tell a fake image from a real one? Microsoft's quiz will test you

Arma 3 and War Thunder clips are being passed off as real airstrike footage in the Iran - Israel conflict

Facepalm: It seems that wherever there is war in the world, there will also be clips of video games that people claim are real footage. Once again, this form of propaganda involves old favorites Arma 3 and War Thunder, with the Middle East conflict helping increase the spread.

Deezer says 70% of AI music streams on its service are fake

Repair technician finds three of four RTX 4090s were fakes packing RTX 3000-series GPUs

YouTube cracks down harder on fake movie trailer channels with new demonetizations

HP agrees to $4 million settlement over inflated PC prices on its website

YouTube demonetizes fake movie trailer channels after investigation

Amazon customer receives fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D, turns out to be decade-old AMD CPU

WTF?! It appears that Amazon still sells the occasional CPU that turns out to be a fake. The latest incident involved a Ryzen 7 9800X3D ordered by a reviewer for a test system that was actually an AMD FX-4100 CPU from 2011.

Study on medical data finds AI models can easily spread misinformation, even with minimal false input

"Goodbye Meta AI" message is a hoax, yet hundreds of thousands have fallen for it

Retro gaming crime ring busted in Italy, seizing 12,000 fake consoles

Facepalm: Retro gaming has become a lucrative market, with companies repackaging old titles as new experiences. However, criminals are also taking advantage of the retro appeal, flooding the market with cheap, counterfeit replicas of "official" consoles pre-loaded with classic, emulated games.